Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performed no miracle. At every stage of the battle he had merely fought intelligently, fought hard, seen what the next thing was to do, done it today, instead of tomorrow. He had merely shown what can be accomplished by common battle sense and the energy to begin the next tough job before its predecessor is finished...
...This long debate," he said, "has now reached its final stage. What a remarkable example it has been of the unbridled freedom of our parliamentary institutions in time of war! ... I am in favor of this freedom, which no other country would use or dare to use in times of mortal peril such as those through which we are passing, but the story must not end there, and I make now my appeal...
...with 300 soldiers packing the stage. It is graced by not one pair of female legs but it has fast feet that cut the air in a dozen kinds of dancing; and strong lungs that roll Irving Berlin's choruses straight up to the roof. It hits the right note, kids Army life...
...recent years he opposed sanctions for Italy, supported Franco, talked of a corporative state for France under the Pretender, the Comte de Paris. But presently more serious fascists seized the French stage, and the national vaudeville was over. Last November, tired and ailing, Daudet resigned from L'Action, retired to Saint Remy-de-Provence to contemplate the ruins of the fair and foolish democracy which had long enjoyed...
...minstrel show, peels off a vaudeville bill complete with jugglers, acrobats, magicians. After that, it turns into a big-scale revue, with Russian ballets jostling Harlem hurlyburly, with a rousing salute to the Navy and a resounding one for the Air Force. It makes copy of Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, with amateur-night take-offs of Jane Cowl, Joe Cook, Gypsy Rose Lee. And at last it brings Irving Berlin on the stage, to let him dig down into the Yip, Yip, Yaphank trunk and come up with Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...